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Editing Keystrokes

In the CLI, you use keystrokes to move around on and edit the command line, and to scroll through a list of recently executed commands. Table 26 lists some typical CLI editing tasks and the keystrokes that perform them.

Table 26: CLI Editing Keystrokes

Task Category

Action

Keyboard Sequence

Move the cursor.

Move the cursor back one character.

Ctrl-b

Move the cursor back one word.

Esc b

Move the cursor forward one character.

Ctrl-f

Move the cursor forward one word.

Esc f

Move the cursor to the end of the command line.

Ctrl-e

Delete characters.

Delete the character before the cursor.

Ctrl-h, Delete, or Backspace

Delete the character at the cursor.

Ctrl-d

Delete all characters from the cursor to the end of the command line.

Ctrl-k

Delete all characters on the command line.

Ctrl-u or Ctrl-x

Delete the word before the cursor.

Ctrl-w or Esc Backspace

Delete the word after the cursor.

Esc d

Insert recently deleted text.

Insert the most recently deleted text at the cursor.

Ctrl-y

Redraw the screen.

Redraw the current line.

Ctrl-l

Display previous command lines.

Scroll backward through the list of recently executed commands.

Ctrl-p

Scroll forward through the list of recently executed commands.

Ctrl-n

Search the CLI history in reverse order for lines matching the search string.

Ctrl-r

Search the CLI history by typing some text at the prompt, followed by the keyboard sequence. The CLI attempts to expand the text into the most recent word in the history for which the text is a prefix.

Esc /

Repeat keyboard sequences.

Specify the number of times to execute a keyboard sequence. Replace number with a number from 1 through 9, and replace sequence with a keyboard sequence in this table.

Esc number sequence


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